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Books on: pressure groups

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Pressure Groups

Book by Duncan Watts; Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Subjects:

Political Participation--Great Britain, Pressure Groups--Great Britain, Pressure Groups--Great Britain--Influence

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CHAPTER 6 Pressure Groups and the Devolved Legislatures...considerations 136 The growth of group activity in Scotland...of Scottish pressure groups 147 Case studies: the...decentralisation of pressure-group activity to reflect...providing pressure groups with a real opportunity...
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Politics in the United States: Readings in Political Parties and Pressure Groups

Book by Henry A. Turner; McGraw-Hill, 1955

Subjects:

Lobbying, Political Parties--United States, United States--Politics And Government--20th Century

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...interests and utilize the same pressure techniques as do pressure groups in attempting to influence...difficult to classify pressure groups accurately, both because many pressure groups are constantly undergoing change...efforts to regulate pressure-group activity, expresses the opinion...
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Pressure Politics in New York: A Study of Group Representation before the Legislature

Book by Belle Zeller; Prentice-Hall, 1937

Subjects:

Lobbying, New York (State)--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...exist. 27 However, not all pressure groups can be so closely identified...the constituencies of such groups cut across party lines. Pressure groups do not divorce themselves...individuals rather than that of the group itself. Occasionally, though...
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Pressure Group: The Campaign for Commercial Television in England

Book by H. H. Wilson; Secker and Warburg, 1961

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British Broadcasting Corporation, Independent Television Authority, Television Broadcasting--Great Britain

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...an example of a successful pressure group operation, the passage of...deviation from more orthodox pressure politics, especially if it...leadership by a very small group of nominally politically insignificant...spokesmen for powerful economic groups in the Conservative coalition...
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The National Farmers Union: Ideology of a Pressure Group

Book by John A. Crampton; University of Nebraska Press, 1965

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National Farmers' Union

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...hears criticism of pressure groups. The impression is given that a pressure group is an undemocratic...danger in a pressure group it will only be because the group is itself dangerous...So-called pressure groups are a natural development...

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Journal Articles on: pressure groups

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Kappan Special Report: Friends, Foes & Noncombatants - Notes on Public Education's Pressure Groups

Journal article by George R. Kaplan; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 82, 2000

Subjects:

Public schools--Analysis, United States--Social policy

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...contradictions - and with pressure groups of all kinds contending...national force and a pressure group of sorts in the 1990s...convictions make them a pressure group second to few. Education...tanks and advocacy groups, mostly founded during...
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Israeli Activism American-Style: Civil Liberties, Environmental, and Peace Organizations as Pressure Groups for Social Change, 1970s-1990s

Journal article by Michael M. Laskier; Israel Studies, Vol. 5, 2000

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Israel, Zionism

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...Michael M. Laskier Israeli Activism American-Style: Civil Liberties, Environmental, and Peace Organizations as Pressure Groups for Social Change, 1970s-1990s LIKE THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL has become a complicated mosaic culturally, ethnically...
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When Businesses Collide: Producer Interest Groups and the Politics of Regulation

Journal article by Heather E. Campbell; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 26, 1998

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Bureaucracy--Political aspects, Government regulation of business--Political aspects, Pressure groups--Analysis

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...often important of the interest groups," and interest groups are discussed only somewhat...active lobbyists. Interest groups that are active continually...understand the effect of interest group pressures upon public utility rate cases...
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Foreign Policy for Sale? Interest Group Influence on President Clinton's Cuba Policy, August 1994

Journal article by Jonathan C. Smith; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1998

Subjects:

Clinton, Bill--Political activity, International relations--History, Pressure groups--Influence, United States--Relations with Cuba

Collections: History, Entire Library

...is that interest group liberalism has failed...certain private groups.(18) Hence...book, Politics, Pressure and the Tariff...influence of business groups and trade associations...potency of an interest group and the groups actual...Schattschneider, Politics, Pressure and the Tariff...Rediscovery of Interest Group Politics," in...Interests: Interest Groups Transformed, ed...
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Does Interest Group Theory Justify More Intrusive Judicial Review?

Journal article by Einer R. Elhauge; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 101, 1991

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Judicial review--Analysis, Pressure groups--Influence

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...capture" by one group will never be complete.(50) Interest groups always face some...increased political pressure face declining marginal...Consequently, interest group theory predicts...distributed among various groups depending on the...contact of interest groups.(185) Because...judges from interest group pressure, judges are better...

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Magazine Articles on: pressure groups

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Public Schools under Fire: Religious Right Pressure Groups Target Public School Children for Conversion Using an Array of New Tactics

Magazine article by Rob Boston; Church & State, Vol. 60, October 2007

Subjects:

Conversion (Religion)--Political aspects, Conversion--Political aspects, Elementary school students--Religious aspects, Public schools--Political aspects, Religious Right (American politics)--Evaluation, Religious institutions--Political activity, Religious organizations--Political activity, Religious right--Evaluation, Separation of powers--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Religious Right Pressure Groups Target Public School...an Austin-based group that opposes the...Religious Right group called the Liberty...themselves under siege by groups obsessed with using...ones surprise, groups that promote elevating...sophisticated. The group does not endorse...
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn

Magazine article by Verlyn Klinkenborg; Mother Jones, Vol. 28, July 2003

Subjects:

Inequality, Nonfiction, Politics, Ravitch, Diane, Textbooks

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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn...Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn...would cause a member of one group-urban whites, for instance...kowtow in advance to almost any pressure group-going so far as to...
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`A Most Felicitous Foray': Dean Juniper Shows the Power of a `Green' Victorian Pressure Group in Action

Magazine article by Dean Juniper; History Today, Vol. 52, September 2002

Subjects:

Commons Preservation Society--History, Environmental associations--History, United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...power of a `green Victorian pressure group in action by Dean Juniper ITS...fully-fashioned pressure group--equipped with all the apparatus...the best organised pressure groups of the Victorian era and earlier...evolve into a powerful ginger group which would catalyse the legislative...
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Reflections of an Arabist: "memory Hole" Shapes U.s. Policy to Pressure Group Requirements

Magazine article by Andrew I. Killgore; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XIII, June 1994

Subjects:

Armed forces, Foreign policy, History, International relations, Israel, Politics

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Arabist: "memory Hole" Shapes U.s. Policy to Pressure Group Requirements by Andrew I. Killgore Reflections of an Arabist: "Memory Hole" Shapes U.S. Policy To Pressure Group Requirements By Andrew I. Killgore In retrospect...
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Servicers to Face Mounting Pressure from Group of State Ags

Magazine article; Mortgage Banking, Vol. 68, April 2008

Subjects:

Attorneys general, Cooperation, Modifications, Mortgage servicing, Refinancing, United States

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Servicers to Face Mounting Pressure from Group of State Ags They...Foreclosure Prevention Working Group, a multi-state task force...Foreclosure Prevention Working Group noted that seven out of 10...Foreclosure Prevention Working Group said it continues to seek cooperation...Foreclosure Prevention Working Groups report. "A continued insistence...

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Newspaper Articles on: pressure groups

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Price-Cutting Rivals Keep Up Pressure on Iceland Group

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 28, 2004

Subjects:

Big Food Group

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Price-Cutting Rivals Keep Up Pressure on Iceland Group. ICELAND frozen food chain parent Big Food Group says sales are again under pressure after price-cutting rivals turned up the heat. Like-for-like...
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INSIDE OUT These Pressure Groups Have a Duty to Criticise

Newspaper article by David Wilson; The Birmingham Post (England), November 21, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

INSIDE OUT These Pressure Groups Have a Duty to Criticise. by David...research reports of the three major pressure groups working within Criminal Justice...Howard League, and mores the pity. Pressure groups clearly have a responsibility...
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'Cymdeithas Unsuited to Lobbying in Cardiff Bay' ACADEMIC CALLS FOR A NEW LANGUAGE PRESSURE GROUP

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 6, 2012

Subjects:

Lobbying

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ACADEMIC CALLS FOR A NEW LANGUAGE PRESSURE GROUP. Byline: DAVID WILLIAMSON...hand, and a direct action group on the fringes of policy making...We need a constitutional group to put the language centre...a "constitutional pressure group", he added: "An ideological...The call for more pressure groups was welcomed by Laura McAllister...
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Of His Mps,59 Were Former Lecturers,39 Trade Union Officials,29local Council Officers,21 in Law,and Another 21 from Pressure Groups. Hardly Any Has Held Jobs in the Real World. Was It Surprising Blair's Government Had Already Begun to Fall Apart; in a Controversial New Book, a Former Labour High-Flier Imagines His Olparty Has Won the General Election. for Tony Blair the Nightmare Is Just Beginning

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 3, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...expect to be put under severe pressure by the trade unions, special interest groups, constituency activists...different in government. The pressure of expectations, no matter...Secretary. The phalanx of pressure groups will be clamouring...
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Pressure Group in Race Riots Warning over Excluded White Underclass

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 17, 2007

Subjects:

Riots

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Pressure Group in Race Riots Warning over...in Birmingham, a pressure group warned. DiverCity, which...meals as the lowest achieving group in Birmingham. The Birmingham...History shows that if minority groups - including white minority...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: pressure groups

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Pressure Group

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PRESSURE GROUP body, organized...agencies. Pressure groups direct their efforts...nonpartisan. Some large pressure groups make a considerable...there are other groups, especially the...particular pressure group reflects the interests...
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Lobbying

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...representatives of interest groups tended to congregate in the...to be responding to interest groups rather than to their constituents...Key, Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups (5th ed. 1964...Politics of Policy-Making and Pressure Groups (1987); R. G. Kaiser...
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Political Science

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...various levels of government, other social and political groups, and the individual; and proposals for improving governmental...problems. See V. O. Key, Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups (5th ed. 1964); G. Almond and G. B. Powell...
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Party, Political

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...general ideological stand, to aid politically certain groups or sections of society, or merely to combine for short...cultural history. See V. O. Key, Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups (5th ed. 1964); S. M. Lipset and S. Rokkan...
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Campaign, Political

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...party expenditures are comparatively very moderate and are fixed by law. See V. O. Key, Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups (5th ed. 1964); L. Overacker, Presidential Campaign Funds (1991); J. Pollock, Party Campaign Funds (1991...

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